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Wikia Search Launches Alpha, Not Ready Yet

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the release-early-and-often dept.

babooo404 writes "Jimmy Wales' latest project, Search Wikia has launched into alpha this morning. Most reviews have been negative. The system is a 'social search' and uses the Nutch search algorithm. You can friend people along with creating profiles, and the system uses a Wikipedia-style format for 'mini articles.'"

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  1. More experienced developers? by sphix42 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I always get a kick out of reading new sites.
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  2. Re:no go by evanbd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Personally, my complaint isn't that wikia search sucks. I'm sure it does, but it's alpha. I think the concept is interesting, so I'll reserve judgement for a while.

    My complaint is that Wikipedia has major flaws, mostly related to management and editing and such. It desperately needs help. I won't go into detail, everyone has heard the complaints before. My biggest complaint about Wikia search is twofold: Jimbo should be working to fix Wikipedia instead, and more importantly, I see no reason to believe Wikia search won't have all the same problems as Wikipedia all over again.

    The reason I care is simply that I think Wikipedia is absolutely amazing, in spite of its (major) flaws. Please, please work on improving it. Wikipedia finally has enough good content, enough recognition, that it has become important to our society. I don't want to see it languish and fail because people went off chasing new neat ideas as soon as the problems with Wikipedia got difficult.